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The coming trauma of ObamaCare

For millions of people, Obamacare will mean, alone or in some combination: higher insurance bills, unwanted changes in status at work, higher taxes, loss of employer-based health insurance and a bewildering bureaucracy that will make today’s already complex insurance maze seem downright simple. …

Then there is the change in work status. Under Obamacare, companies don’t have to insure, or pay fines for not insuring, employees who work less than 30 hours a week. So it’s no surprise that many companies are going to make sure their part-time workers, and some current full-time workers, stay below the 30-hour limit. That will mean less work and less pay for those employees.

Then there are the unexpected costs. This week, the Department of Health and Human Services revealed it will charge employer and individual plans a $63 “fee” for every person they cover. The Obama administration says the fee will be temporary, but it could touch about 190 million Americans at least for the next few years.

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I work as a temp, currently averaging 40 hours a week. The temp agency is almost certainly not going to start offering ObamaCare qualifying insurance, so they’ll probably end up slashing my hours below 30.

So not only will I have to pay all my current expenses on 25% less money but I’ll have the individual mandate heaped on top of that.

The article did not even touch on three other areas (and there are certainly many more) which are likely to cause major trauma and chaos:

1. The complete loss of medical privacy.

HIPPA be damned: Obamacare provides for sharing ALL of your information with everybody: especially including government. You can try to slow this down by refusing to sign privacy waivers, refusing to provide information, etc…but the government will keep trying and will eventually suck it all in via your doctor, pharmacy, and other repositories of your records.

2. The complete loss of financial privacy.

Obamacare provides new powers for government snoops to dig into your financial affairs: no warrant required!!!

3. The complete loss of bank/financial institution security.

Obamacare provides new powers for the government to step in and confiscate any or all of your bank and/or financial institution accounts:no warrant, no warning, no hearing, no recourse!!!All government has to do is ALLEGE that you owe government for some real or imagined health care cost.